Monday, 16 October 2017

Capital Celluloid 2017 - Day 298: Sat Oct 28

Josh Saco, the man behind the Cigarette Burns film screenings, is giving you the chance to see Dario Argento horror classic Suspiria from a 35mm print. Don't pass up the opportunity ... plus ...

... this
is part of a Halloween all-nighter which will also include Filipino lunacy in Killing of Satan; classic 80s slasher The Boogey Man; a rare screening of an imported Sony
archive print of 70s Satanic panic shocker The Brotherhood of Satan and 80s schlock Re-Animator. All films will play
from 35mm. Musical accompaniment will be provided by Pentagram Home Video.

London Film Festival preview extract for Suspiria:

Four decades ago, Italian
genre master Dario Argento brazenly subverted expectations by abandoning
the giallo tradition upon which he had built his reputation, launching
headlong into a fantastical tale of the supernatural. The resulting film
remains not just one of the director’s most celebrated works, but a
defining classic of horror cinema. American ballerina Suzy Bannion
arrives in Germany to study at the prestigious Tanz Dance Academy. But
as a series of murders and a variety of other inexplicable events begin
to pile up, Suzy realises her new school houses a terrifying secret.
Dripping in dark imagination, Suspiria ranks as one of Argento’s most
visionary works – its garish colour palette and bravura set pieces
adding to a frenzied sense of dread.Michael Blyth